| Tsevener | |
| Oct 24 2022, 6:13 PM |
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| Oct 24 2022, 6:13 PM |
We have several translations (14 after a file search) that include the TranslateWiki gender keyword. For example:
Currently translations like these may appear malformed in the app:
This ticket is to investigate and improve this treatment in the localization script. Ideally we would use NSStringGenderRuleType in a .stringsdict file, similar to how we deal with plurals. If this doesn't work, maybe we can at least clean up the resulting text so that the || no longer shows.
We can try to work this by tapping on MediaWiki's gender tool for languages with gendered nouns. More on that work here T279483.
As for implementation on the client, NSStringGenderRuleType doesn't have any public documentation from Apple but could work together with our existing script. It would require updating our existing script to address the gender issues in some languages, similar to what we do with plurals.
Starting on iOS15, the foundation framework supports a new data formatting enum called grammatical gender https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/morphology/3767096-grammaticalgender . I'm not sure if this option is viable, as it would demand reworking our current localization solution, but it could be worth testing when we revisit this ticket.
In any case, addressing this ticket would require us to research how different languages handle this issue. I based these findings on what could be considered typical for romance languages, but research in other languages is necessary.